Wow. My company has signed an agreement to launch a satellite on a Falcon 9 sometime in 2012. I'm impressed. Loral is an extremely conservative company. They wouldn't launch on an "unproven" launch vehicle unless they were REALLY sure the the launch vehicle can do the job.

Your statement about Loral being very conservative just provides further evidence how much recognition SpaceX has already earned among other "space companies"

I'm trying to find out which satellite will be be going on the Falcon 9 in 2012. On a certain level, though Loral is "conservative", they do at times look at new business avenues. Years ago Loral signed an agreement with Kistler Rocket Company for 10 launches. This was back in 1997.

it's probably the next intelsat if i had to guess which one they'll do - that's the same time that the first Omega-3 sat is supposed to go up, maybe they'll put it on falcon 9, two "risks" in one bird. though falcon 9 is a much bigger one than the new bus design, which is only new in the sense that birds are a "new" invention of nature as compared to dinosaurs.